4 Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and ^vgo up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.

8 So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the Lord in Shiloh.”

9 So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,